1/21 Nasty Woman & Bad Hombre Reading & Fundraiser @ Staghorn Garden Cafe

THIS SATURDAY…

Join us 4pm, Saturday, January 21st at Staghorn Garden Cafe (517 Greenfield Ave 15207) to help raise funds to donate to national and local organizations and listen to only a handful of the dynamite poets we will be publishing in our forthcoming Anthology titled, Nasty Woman & Bad Hombre!

Reading line up includes:
Angele Ellis
Cameron Barnett
Kayla Sargeson
Daniel Shapiro
Michael Albright
RB Becca Mertz
Sarah Williams-Devereux
John Stupp
Deena November
Nina Padolf
Ellen McGrath Smith
Bob Walicki
And more!

We are still accepting submissions (details below) as well as funds (link below) and donations to raffle off at this event (PM Deena November if you have an item or service you can contribute to our fundraising raffle).

Nasty Woman & Bad Hombre Anthology will be published by Lascaux Editions in the summer of 2017! This anthology seeks poetry, creative non-fiction essays, short stories and art that address reactions to the election. A gofundme page for publication/printing costs has been established. All proceeds will be donated to the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Pittsburgh Women’s Shelter and The Art House in Homewood. Please send 1-3 poems or up to 5 pages prose and a brief bio to november@rmu.edu
Submission deadline now extended to February 17, 2017.

Donations: https://www.gofundme.com/nastywomanandbadhombreanthology

9/12 A Writer Rodeo @ ModernFormations; 9/13 I Don’t Know What I Would Do If I Couldn’t Speak My Mind @ City of Asylum Pittsburgh

THIS WEEKEND…

11:00 AM-11:10 AM Aubrey Baker

11:10 AM- 11:20 AM Joshua Bellin

11:20 AM-11:30 AM Wendy Scott

11:30 AM-11:40 AM Judith Dorian

11:40 AM-11:50 AM Julie Cecchini

11:50 AM-12:00 PM Sarah Williams-Devereux

12:00 PM- 12:10 PM Angele Ellis

12:10 PM-12:20 PM Bonita Lee Penn

12:20 PM-12:30 PM Malcolm Friend

12:30 PM-12:40 PM Sheila Kelly

12:40 PM-12:50 PM Jay Carson

12:50 PM-1:00 PM Arlene Weiner

1:00 PM-1:10 PM Barbara Dahlberg

1:10 PM- 1:20 PM Michael Albright

1:20 PM- 1:30 PM Kris Collins

1:30 PM- 1:40 PM Ann Curran

1:40 PM-1:50 PM E.B. Bortz

1:50- 2:00 PM Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

2:00 PM- 2:10 PM Kath Donnelly

2:10 PM-2:20 PM Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12 Literary Artists

2:20 PM- 2:30 PM Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12 Literary Artists

2:30 PM- 2:40 PM Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12 Literary Artists

2:40 PM-2:50 PM Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12 Literary Artists

2:50 PM-3:00 PM Jessica Server

3:00 PM-3:10 PM Joanne Samreny

3:10 PM- 3:20 PM Dakota Garilli

3:20 PM-3:30 PM R.J. Gibson

3:30 PM-3:40 PM Kelly Andrews

3:40 PM-3:50 PM Don Wentworth

3:50 PM-4:00 PM Stephen Pusateri

4:00 PM-4:10 PM Jean Croyle

4:10 PM-4:20 PM Jen Ashburn

4:20 PM-4:30 PM Jason Irwin

4:30 PM-4:40 PM City of Asylum

4:40 PM-4:50 PM City of Asylum

4:50 PM-5:00 PM City of Asylum

6/18 Sheila Kelly, Angele Ellis, & Michael Albright @ Classic Lines

THIS THURSDAY…

Under the Sign of the Bear Poetry Series – Sheila Kelly Angele Ellis & Michael Albright.

7:00 PM, Thursday, June 18 at Classic Lines bookstore, 5825 Forbes Avenue in Squirrel Hill. 

 

Sheila Kelly is a retired psychotherapist who leads generative writing workshops at the Wilkins School Community Center in Regent Square and Ekphrasis workshops in art galleries around town. She is a regular facilitator at the Squirrel Hill Library’s Writers’ Studio. In April of this year, her poem, “Enticements & Push Mowers,” won a cash prize from the Palm Springs Poetry Festival Contest. Recent poems can be found in The Brentwood Anthology and Voices from the Attic: Volume XX. Sheila lives in Greenfield with her husband, daughter, 2 cats and 8 chickens. 

Angele Ellis saw Buddhist monks dance under a theatre marquee featuring her haiku, after winning Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ G-20 Haiku Contest. She is author of  Arab on Radar (Six Gallery Press), whose poems earned her an Individual Creative Artist fellowship in poetry from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Spared (A Main Street Rag Editors’ Choice Chapbook). Her poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in over forty journals and ten anthologies, including Prime Number, Grasslimb, Grey Sparrow, Al Jadid, Weave, Mizna, Rogue Agent, and Women Write Resistance (Hyacinth Girl Press). She lives in Friendship, both a Pittsburgh neighborhood and a state of mind.

 

Michael Albright has published poems in various journals, including Stirring, Rust + Moth, Tar River Poetry, Pembroke Magazine, Cider Press Review, Revolver, Moon City Review, Pretty Owl, Uppagus, and the forthcoming chapbook In the Hall of Dead Birds and Viking Tools (Finishing Line, 2015). He lives on a windy hilltop near Greensburg, PA. with his wife Lori and an ever-changing array of children and other animals.

 

 

1/24 The Brentwood Anthology Reading & Snoetry!

THIS SATURDAY…

At 3PM, Don Wentworth will host this at the Carnegie Library in Oakland.

You may ask yourself, Who all is actually reading at this? I put that very question to Don & here’s what he said:

Well, they didn’t list them individually – supposed to be any or all who are in the anthology – here are some highlights:

Michael Albright, Joan Bauer, Jennifer Jackson Berry, Ziggy Edwards, Judy Robinson John Stokes, Arlene Weiner and more – no guarantee any of these will read, it’s whoever shows, but I think most will.

From there, Don will be heading to Erie to read at this, which is going on pretty much all day.

Don will go on at 8:10. Here‘s the full schedule.

9/24 Pretty Owl Poetry @ Biddle’s Escape

THIS WEDNESDAY…